curl-6 said:
mountaindewslave said:
curl-6 said:
As far as their "becoming less relevant" I think that's more a matter of audience reach rather than sales.
Yes, their games still sell well, but they sell well mostly to their established fanbase. Outside of this fanbase however, they have become less relevant to the gaming mainstream.
|
they've become so less 'relevant' to the mainstream that their handheld is the ONLY one that has survived this generation with 60 million sales (the competition being at like 1/5 that).
literally JUST last generation they were dominant in the home console market. Amiibos selling out everywhere to all kinds of people shows that Nintendo is as relevant as ever, its just the simple fact that the Wii U was marketed terribly and has a giant controller/screen thing that most gamers can't identify with
if Nintendo had released the Wii U with a traditional controller and not named it the Wii U (it had nothing to do with the Wii so the name is absurd) then it would have easily sold 2 or 3x as well as it has
this is coming from a giant Nintendo fan. I don't like the Wii U because of the gamepad and there are a large amount of gamers who feel the same way. it was a very easy thing to fix but Nintendo obviously did what they did
3DS + Wii U and Nintendo is competitive with even Sony in terms of video game hardware sold. the only reason Nintendo did so poorly this generation with the home console is conceptually was a terrible idea
|
It's not just Wii U; 3DS will be their lowest selling portable (unless we count the Virtual Boy) and will sell about half what the DS did.
The N64 was concurrent with the Gameboy, though so was the SNES. If we add Gameboy's sales to either console we land at around 152 - 170 million units. Wii U + 3DS meanwhile will top out at about half that.
Nintendo's sales now are not "similar to the N64" generation, they are the lowest they have ever been since they join ed the market in the mid 80s.
|
are you deliberately being dull or what?
you realize that the Gameboy lasted through MULTIPLE home console generations right? the original Gameboy was being sold from like 1989 until the late 90s.
to compare it to handheld generations that last half of that is just naive.
the only way to comparitvely use the original Gameboy sales with the SNES or N64 hardware sales you would have to cut the Gameboy sales in life half. again, the N64 (and SNES) were not around for large periods of sales time for the original Gameboy. the original Gameboy does not even fit per say into an exact generation as its successor (the Gameboy Color) did not come out until the late 90s
generally you would use Nintendo 64 hardware sales + Gameboy Color Sales as the combined number for that generation, at least thats how people generally look at it
